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Examples of dust jacket in a Sentence
The dust jacket was torn.
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Byers’s version had a paper dust jacket, torn at the corners.
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Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
That lengthy description, which appears on the dust jacket as well as the title page, simply announces the multitudes contained within.
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William F. Buckley Jr., National Review, 19 Dec. 2024
Brown’s publisher must already be redesigning the dust jacket to incorporate the accolade.
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Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
The dust jacket for When the Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines features a younger Carter in a bespoke power suit, cigarette in hand, his trademark hair wings just beginning to take flight.
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Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Sep. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1926, in the meaning defined above
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“Dust jacket.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dust%20jacket. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
dust jacket
noun
: a removable usually decorative paper cover for a book
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